Water From Your Eyes release new album It’s A Beautiful Place

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Water From Your Eyes have released new album It’s a Beautiful Place via Matador Records. The album is the duo’s dizzying, chrome-tinted masterpiece, which Rolling Stone has christened “their most joyously out there achievement yet.”
It’s A Beautiful Place, the new full-length from Water From Your Eyes out August 22, opens with zero-gravity instrumental ‘One Small Step’ – a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for the New York duo. The album is a gleaming megalopolis: a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness. “It ended up being about time, dinosaurs and space,” says Nate Amos. “We wanted to present a wide range of styles in a way that acknowledges everything’s just a tiny blip.”
The duo recorded the bulk of It’s a Beautiful Place last summer, just as they have every other WFYE release: in Amos’s bedroom, under the watchful eye of a tattered Robin Williams poster from the Mork & Mindy era.. “Basically,” jokes Amos, “Robin is like a silent member of Water From Your Eyes.” But this time, much of the writing and recording were shaped around the dynamics of a full-blooded live group: “When you’re playing with a band you tend to write with one in mind – this was the first time I wrote anything for WFYE imagining us playing anywhere bigger than a basement”, he observes.

True to this, ‘Nights In Armor’ is introduced with a whirlwind of Frusciante Stratocaster bliss. ‘Born 2’ is a worldbuilding guitar onslaught, its lyrics channeling a preoccupation with sci-fi literature and political theory as Brown’s voice glides overhead: “the world is so common / and born to become / something else”. “I’ve been carrying around The Dispossessed (a 1974 anarchist utopian novel by Ursula K. Le Guin) and There Is No Unhappy Revolution (a 2017 non-fiction by Marcello Tarì) in my backpack for well over a year now,” Brown says. “They have been to four different continents and across almost every state line. While writing lyrics for the album, I skimmed both books quite thoroughly.”

Listen to the album’s ebullient and expansive third single ‘Nights in Armor’ and watch the Jo Shaffer-directed video below.

Water From Your Eyes – ‘Nights in Armor’ (Official Music Video)

Water From Your Eyes – ‘Life Signs’ (Official Music Video)
‘Playing Classics’ is a 6-minute four-on-the-floor epic, its otherworldly piano motif straddling the uncanny valley where much of WFYE’s sonic world resides. The deceptively straightforward folk-rock of ‘Blood On The Dollar’ finds Brown’s vocals at their most unmediated and emotive, while Amos’ guitar solo delivers the albums’ soulful country rock zenith.

Water From Your Eyes – ‘Playing Classics’ (Official Music Video)

Praise for Water From Your Eyes

“Their most joyously out-there achievement yet — a mind-blowing concept album about time, space travel, and the nature of reality.” – Rolling Stone

 “Water From Your Eyes revels in musical jump cuts and not-quite-sequiturs.. By the end of the song, somehow it all makes sense” – New York Times on “Life Signs”

“Water From Your Eyes haven’t forgone dynamism and experimentation in the quest for hardcore power” – Pitchfork

 “Brilliantly subversive” – MOJO

“It’s brilliant, and sure to send them further into the indie rock cosmos that they’ve been orbiting for the last few years” – NME

 “a dizzying, technicolour collage” – The Quietus

Water From Your Eyes

It’s A Beautiful Place

Buy the album HERE.

TRACKLIST 

  1. One Small Step
  2. Life Signs
  3. Nights in Armor
  4. Born 2
  5. You Don’t Believe in God?
  6. Spaceship
  7. Playing Classics
  8. It’s a Beautiful Place
  9. Blood on the Dollar
  10.  For Mankind

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